· Public charity
Montana Shares Inc
A partnership of nonprofit groups devoted to improving the quality of life throughout Montana.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEWIS & CLARK HUMANE SOCIETY | $28,289 |
| MONTANA SHARES | $15,732 |
| MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK | $6,828 |
| MONTANA FREE PRESS | $5,453 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +52% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LALEWIS AND CLARK HUMANE SOCIETY7× · 2017–2024 · $228k · revenue +62%
- MFMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC7× · 2017–2024 · $114k · revenue +112%
- NMNAMI MONTANA5× · 2018–2022 · $33k · revenue +133%
Funded once
- GFGREAT FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +45%
- MWMONTANA WILDLIFE FEDERATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +52%
- BABoys and Girls Club of Missoula Countygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +235%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To serve its members as an advocate for the medical profession, quality patient care and the health of all montana citizens.
To collectively serve as a catalyst for engagement and bonding of people to our wildlife and public lands in montana through a sense of place, education, access, research and stewardship.
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
The montana state parks foundation raises private support to enhance the visitors experience and build advocates for montanas state parks and recreation heritage.
Wild montana action fund builds the political power necessary for protecting and conserving public lands and wild places across the state by elevating the voices of montanans who cherish our outdoor way of life.
To heighten the public's awareness of conservation districts and their activities as well as to promote soil and water conservation.
To promote public policy solutions that provide increased access to economic opportunities, greater individual freedoms and encourage greater participation in public matters by providing research and recommendation on public policy
The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.
To advance responsible tax, budget, and economic policies through credible research and analysis in order to promote opportunity and fairness for all Montanans.
To create and sustain an optimal business climate, business prosperity and a strong montana economy through advocacy, education and collaboration, working to provide an empowered and educated workforce, reduce business growth obstacles,…
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LEWIS AND CLARK HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MONTANA SHARES INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI MONTANA ↗
- Who funds ANIMEALS ↗
- Who funds MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ONCOLOGY CAMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTANA SPAY-NEUTER TASK FORCE ↗
- Who funds HEART OF THE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MONTANA ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds The Pride Foundation ↗
- Who funds MONTANA WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FREE PRESS ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Missoula County ↗
- Who funds MONTANA LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS MONTANA ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Sample Foundation Inc · The Kendeda Fund · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Montana Shares Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Montana Shares Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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